Top Ten Best Deals This Week: 5/27/2013

I’ve compiled best deals available at the drugstores, Target, Ralphs/Kroger, and other stores. I stick to deals that don’t require too many or any obscure coupons, and I try to pick practical items that most people buy at some point.

Use this list to decide which stores to hit this week, based on what you need. You might even use it to decide you can skip shopping for a week, because you don’t need what’s on sale. Please note this post contains affiliate links that help support this site at no additional cost to you. Thank you for using them! You can read CFO’s full disclosure here.

1. Cheap Always Pads at Target

If your store has an unadvertised gift card offer on Always Ultra Thin pads, you can them super cheap after coupons:

The gift card doesn’t end until 6/22, but note the expiration date of the coupon in the scenario above is 5/31. There’s a $0.50/1 coupon coming in the 6/2 P&G, so not as good but still a great deal for Always if that’s your preferred brand.

You may also want to check your coupon stash, as I found a coupon for $3/2 Always pads that made my deal even better.

2. Cheap Stayfree Pads at Target

There is another unadvertised gift card deal for a $5 Target gift card when you buy 3 Stayfree or Carefree products. Some are finding prices as low as $2.89. However, they were over $3 at my store, making the Always deal a better one for me. But if you can find the lower price, or if you prefer Stayfree, you can do this deal;

Toothbrushes and toothpaste used to be free every week when I started playing The Drugstore Game five years ago, but that’s not the case anymore. So it’s nice to see this free toothbrush deal at Walgreens this week:

The ad for the Ralphs sale that starts tomorrow includes $2 Post Cereal, with Honey Bunches of Oats in the picture. If the sale includes Post Shredded Wheat, you can use the coupon for $2/1 Post Shredded Wheat Cereal from the 4/28 Smart Source to get a box for free. The coupon expires 6/9.

6. Cheap All Detergent at Ralphs

Also starting tomorrow, Ralphs will have All Laundry Detergent on sale for $2.99. There are coupons you can use to get it for $1.99, and I consider anything under $2 to be a stock up price on detergent. (Except for Purex, which I don’t like and won’t pay more than $1 for a bottle.)

The coupon doesn’t list the price you’ll pay, but it has ranged anywhere from $2.99 to $6.99 in the past. Regardless, you’ll get your full purchase price back via rebate.

Ends 6/1.

9. Cheap Brights Copy Paper at Staples

Teachers spend a lot of money on their job out of their own pocket, so I like to buy supplies for my sons’ teachers whenever I can find a good deal. Staples rarely has deals on their Brights line of copy paper, and this is a super popular product among the teachers at our school.

This week, there’s another printable coupon for B1G1 Free Staples Brights Colored Paper. The reams were $11.49 each at my store.

Ends 6/1.

10. $0.69 MP3s at Amazon

Amazon has over 24,000 MP3 songs priced at $0.69 each. The selection includes: